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The elderly couple were fit enough to have climbed up to the mountain hut, but who knows at what speed. They were sprawling in the sun after eating a sandwich and a banana, and it was a bad omen that I ...

The top of Mount St Primo offered a magnificent sweeping view over Lake Como and the highest Alps, a combination of snow-speckled mountains and blue waters in the frame of early summer greenery. The temperature ...

Finally a clear Sunday was announced. I brushed up the text message that Danilo had sent me during the week to propose a hike in the mountains. It read: "Climb to Mount Barbarossa starting from the hamlet ...

... Alps formed a superb ring to the north. After the spell of cold and rain this was indeed a glorious Easter day.
We strolled along the lakeshore at Varenna and later basked in the sun at Menaggio. We ...

Sella refuge lies at an altitude of 2,700 m in the Gran Paradiso National Park. Every year, at the last weekend of September, they hold the end-of the-season party to mark the moment from which the establishment ...

... Republic of Venice. It originates in the Alps, flows along Veltlin, then into Lake Como and out of it leaving the mountains behind and finally it crosses the plain before throwing itself into the river ...

... the weather is clear the view sweeps from the Rhaetian Alps to the plain. Open year round, at least at weekends, in summer and even in winter, it makes a coveted destination for hikers in every season, ...

... my friend Veronica, a quick search made me choose this place. The weather forecast was not rosy enough to embark on the long haul to the Rhaetian Alps that we’d envisaged doing in the first place, so we ...

... the valley towards the south and across Valtellina over the Raethian Alps to the north.
Some people did try to clamber to the top without crampons and reached it, but we didn’t feel safe after another ...

The weather forecast wasn’t promising at all. Probably it wasn’t even reasonable to leave for a two-day hike, but we mustered the guts to make our plan come true in possible adverse conditions. After all, ...

In my opinion the mountain hut par exellence in the Orobian Alps is rifugio Curò. It’s set at 1915 m amid stern mountains in a place where the exposed dark rock face makes the mountains look particularly ...

Yesterday's hike left me with slightly sore legs, which is usual, and prickly eyes because it was a sunny windy day. I went up to the Laghi Gemelli hut from Roncobello, a couple of hours' hike, and like ...

Val di Mello is a delightful little valley in the Rhaetian Alps branching off the main Valtelline valley along which the river Adda flows. Although it’s a secondary valley, its landscape is simply stunning, ...

... over the stalwart Alps to reach destinations beyond these soaring granite bastions. Alternatively a more scenic route has been traced that repeatedly crosses the stream and the spectacular Acquafraggia ...

For the third consecutive Sunday we’ve gone hiking in the mountains in a weather that’s got better and better. This time it was cloudless, if not perfectly clear, and I’m very glad it wasn’t, because ...

Listening to the delightfully raucous pipe of the flute acting as main voice in the devotional tune, accompanied by other stringed instruments like the sarod, the sitar and the santoor, I drift in the ...